Michael Murphy

Private Parts captures Howard at his most hilarious, in a bare-all, no-jokes-barred look at a true entertainment sensation.

Set against the backdrop of a mythic "New West," this film that is equal parts scathing political lampoon and sun-stunned neo-noir detective story. (Newmarket Films)

When a corrupt businessman and the grotesque Penguin plot to take control of Gotham City, only Batman can stop them, while the Catwoman has her own agenda.

This movie tells the intersecting stories of various people connected to the music business in Nashville. (imdb)

A divorced New Yorker currently dating a high-schooler brings himself to look for love in the mistress of his best friend instead (imdb)

Set in winter in the Old West. Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern (imdb)

Two researchers have come to San Francisco to compete for a research grant in Music. One seems a bit distracted... (imdb)

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. (imdb)

Guy Hamilton is a journalist on his first job as a foreign correspondent. His apparently humdrum assignment to Indonesia soon turns hot as President Sukarno electrifies the populace and frightens foreign powers (imdb)

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand. (imdb)

Erica seemingly has the perfect life until her husband informs her he's leaving her for another woman... (imdb)

A journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship... (imdb)

11-year-old Davey, whose mother is dead and whose father is preoccupied with his own problems, has retreated... (imdb)

A slightly self absorbed yuppie takes in his parents including his senile father, after their home burns down. But his personal and professional life fall apart soon after. (imdb)

A private eye who has amnesia must go to court about a kingpin's murder. (imdb)

After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police. (imdb)

Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others who do not fit within his plans. When the fateful day arrives, and he enters the dome with his fanciful construction of bird wings, Brewster is surrounded by the police. Will he be caught before he attempts to fly? (imdb)

Robert Altman's jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930's Kansas City... (imdb)

Daisy Lowendahl (Bergen) is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan (Hall) who knows almost everything about her, and two men - one of whom may be trying to kill her, the other of whom could save her life, causing Daisy to be thrown into the middle of a real-life drama. (imdb)

This beautiful yet unconventional story of a couple coming to grips with the onset of memory loss is adapted from celebrated author Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain." (Lionsgate)

The Apollo 3 crew are training when it is discovered that the Russians plan a moon landing. The Americans enact a makeshift plan to land a man on the moon first, using an older style Gemini spacecraft... (imdb)

Robert Altman's sadly neglected film that, along with his later "Images", fits into the unconventional psycho-thriller mold. A bizarre story with Sandy Dennis as a spinster who takes in a handsome young man (Michael Burns) who is pretending to be mute. She imprisons the boy and supplies his every need, including a prostitute (Luana Anders), whom she goes out and brings home for Burns' pleasure. (imdb)

Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they rescue from the ants to destroy them. But the ants have other ideas. (imdb)

A sexy starlet (Kim Novak) resembles Lylah Clare, a flamboyant star of the thirties, who died mysteriously and tragically on her wedding night gets a chance to play her in a biographical film directed by Lylah's real-life husband (Peter Finch) and history repeats itself as he falls for her reincarnation. (imdb)

Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles seance, the Count having latterly been involved with Erica's just-dead mother. After taking the Count home, Paul and Erica are waylayed, and next day a listless Erica is diagnosed by their doctor as having lost a lot of blood... (imdb)

A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny". (imdb)

Biographical telemovie about the Olympic diving gold medallist.

A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War. (imdb)

O'Neal plays a computer expert named Webster, who alleviates on-the-job doldrums by moonlighting as a successful jewel thief. Webster invites himself to upscale soirees, where he cases out the location and proceeds with his heists. During his adventures, he meets up with Laura, a high society woman who teams up with Webster to assist on his heists... (Answers.com)

A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.

In the tradition of classic classroom dramas such as "To Sir, With Love," comes the story of dedicated teacher Conor MacMichael, who tries to reach out and give to her pupils, juvenile delinquents, at a London alternative school. (imdb)

A young suicidal and rebellious teen gets sent to her Grandparents for the summer where life takes an unexpected turn. (imdb)

Leon, an upper-middle-class teenager, fervently believes he is the reincarnation of fabled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. (topten.ca)

Taylor Brandon Burns, a conflicted twelve-year-old TV star from the U.S., runs away from the set - and his problems - while shooting a big-budget film in Canada. His reluctant limo-driver, Rick Schiller, a down-on-his-luck indie filmmaker, is enlisted to find Taylor before the childstar destroys himself. (imdb)

An orphaned New Zealand girl married to an older, wealthy businessman learns to deal with his strange sexual desires. (imdb)

When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the bank themselves. (imdb)

On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley attempts to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in front of the Washington Hilton. While Reagan is in the hospital, Secretary of State Alexander Haig takes control at the White House, only to find himself close to nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union. A thought-provoking portrait of an infamous day in American history that was fraught with far more chaos than the public knew. (tvguide.com)

Tanner is a political candidate in the 1988 presidential race. A New Hampshire fixture, he goes on the campaign trail and faces fitting into a difficult era.

"Everybody's Making Pictures," observes Martin Scorsese in this sly sequel to Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau's Emmy Award-winning satirical miniseries, Tanner '88. Sixteen years after Jack Tanner (Michael Murphy) ran for president, his filmmaker daughter Alex (Cynthia Nixon) is making a documentary about her dad's dark horse campaign. At least, that's the plan - until a disastrous screening sends Alex back to the drawing board, and on to the 2004 Democratic National Convention. (jddempst)

Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, an errant missile strikes a state of the art passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, a handful of survivors must achieve the impossible: Land the airplane. (imdb)

Docudrama uses fictional reports of a crisis in the Middle East, which leads to a nuclear confrontation between the US and the USSR. "Looking Glass" is the code word for the Strategic Air Command's control plane which is to be used in the case of nuclear war. (imdb)

This story was, in fact, the story of a serial murderer who played cat and mouse with the police as he tried to escape on the Illinois Turnpike. The existence of the military convoy complicated the plot, as it hampered police efforts to capture the killer, while the manhunt interfered with the convoy. (kraft1963.blogspot.com)

While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders. (imdb)

Tess is a tom boy struggling to cope in a family full of boys. (imdb)

A seemingly perfect marriage disintegrates, as both husband and wife become involved in a series of affairs. (imdb)

A series showcasing documentaries on American history.

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese' captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year. Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, 'Rolling Thunder' is a one of a kind experience, from master filmmaker Martin Scorsese.

Chronicles the shooting down of a Korean passenger plane by Soviet air force on 1st September 1983 (imdb.com).

A satirical, experimental "Spa Western" set in 1893.

Documentary with some of the actors, script supervisor, and casting director, as they discuss making the film McCabe & Mrs. Miller, the style and themes of the story, working with Robert Altman.

Young poker players must navigate their past along with the best players in the world to win. (imdb)

A cop becomes a union leader for the police force. He has to balance between protecting the police force as well as take out the dirty cops in the force. (imdb)